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    Pre­oc­cu­pied With My Father
    Simon Schneiderman
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    Rosen­feld’s Lives: Fame, Obliv­ion, and the Furies of Writing
    Steven J. Zipperstein
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    Exiles From Nowhere: The Jews and the Cana­di­an Elite
    Alan Mendelson
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    Spir­i­tu­al Rad­i­cal: Abra­ham Joshua Hes­chel in Amer­i­ca, 1940 – 1972
    Edward K. Kaplan
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    Churchill and the Jews: A Life­long Friendship
    Martin Gilbert
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    Hein­rich Himm­ler: A Life
    Peter Longerich
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    A Jew in the Pub­lic Are­na: The Career of Israel Zangwill
    Meri-Jane Rochel­son
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    Paul on Mazursky
    Sam Wasson
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    Abel Kivi­at, Nation­al Cham­pi­on: Twen­ti­eth-Cen­tu­ry Track and Field and the Melt­ing Pot
    Alan S. Katchen
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    Leon Trot­sky: A Rev­o­lu­tion­ary’s Life
    Joshua Rubenstein
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    Why Trilling Matters
    Adam Kirsch
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    Alfred Kaz­in’s Journals
    Richard M. Cook, ed.
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    Ein­stein: His Life and Universe
    Walter Isaacson
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    George Gersh­win: His Life and Work
    Howard Pollack
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    Sophie Scholl and the White Rose
    Annette Dumbach and Jud Newborn
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    Jonathan Wilson
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